1 1913 — Jim Thorpe, star of the 1912 Olympics, signs to play baseball with the New York Giants ... 1959 — Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach NFL Green Bay Packers. 1962 — Using a ...
One of the more recent additions to the Olympic Games, flag football has significantly risen in popularity, as it has created a new avenue for people to enjoy the sport without the physical risks ...
Simone Biles has built her career on pushing boundaries and redefining what’s possible in gymnastics. Yet, there’s one question she still can’t answer with certainty: will she compete at the 2028 ...
Sir James Clark Ross discovered magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada. British scientists have recently revealed that Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting towards Russia at an ...
All that glitters is not gold — and, as some athletes who competed in the Paris Olympics are finding out, even gold can lose its luster. Since the 2024 Olympic Games last August, some Olympians ...
Two women were allegedly beaten up, with one of them tied to an electric pole, in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior district following which four persons have been arrested, police said on Wednesday.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the IBA - which ran the Olympic Games' boxing programme - in 2019 because of concerns over its finances, governance, ethics, refereeing and judging.
USF pole-vaulting coach Don Marsh has spent 26 years coaching at the university. He is a former middle-distance runner at Michigan State University. Marsh began his coaching career at the high-school ...
The designers of the medals for the 2024 Olympics in Paris have spoken out after a number of them were handed back by the winning athletes for being in poor condition. Team USA skateboarder Nyjah ...
Federica Brignone and Sofia Goggia made it a sweep for host Italy on the course for next year's Milan-Cortina Olympics. Brignone dominated a World Cup super-G on Sunday to follow Goggia's downhill ...
In Silesia in August, fresh from claiming Olympic bronze in Paris, the Greek star became the 29th pole vaulter in history to vault six metres or more, in the first competition to ever have three ...